NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

13945 points

164% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS

323 FPS

197 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

174 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

241 FPS

153 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

136 FPS

88 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

6555.01 points

182% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

179169 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

164101 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

896 GB/s

148% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

80 W

112% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

144 Gigapixels/s

68% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

360 Gigatexels/s

80% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

7680

114% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

240

114% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 597

25th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 3060.